In the 347th century, the family were still exiled from Raxacoricofallapatorius, although they expected a reappraisal in the coming thousand years. They were involved in the Platonic War, being among those defeated by the humans. To seek revenge, they employed Navarino technicians to build a temporal drive, the Slitheen ate them after it was completed. They travelled back to 1500 B.C., when Greece was facing famine. They gave them food, asking in exchange for champions to fight for them. The Slitheen were actually running a temporal tourist tour, with aliens coming to see the sites of future monuments and with the human fighters being killed for their entertainment. Their plan was for the humans to become dependent on them, never develop technology and never develop any advanced civilisati